Re: what am I doing wrong building 1.8?

[Andy Wingo]

A followup problem:

[Should these go to bug-guile or something?]

    make[3]: Entering directory `/home/wingo/src/guile-1.8/doc/ref'
    GUILE="/home/wingo/src/guile-1.8/pre-inst-guile" 
../../scripts/snarf-guile-m4-docs ../../guile-config/guile.m4 > 
./autoconf-macros.texi
    restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && \
            am__cwd=`pwd` && cd . && \
            rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && \
            if (/bin/bash /home/wingo/src/guile-1.8/build-aux/missing --run 
makeinfo --version) >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
              for f in guile.info guile.info-[0-9] guile.info-[0-9][0-9] 
guile.i[0-9] guile.i[0-9][0-9]; do \
                if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; \
              done; \
            else :; fi && \
            cd "$am__cwd"; \
            if /bin/bash /home/wingo/src/guile-1.8/build-aux/missing --run 
makeinfo   -I . \
             -o guile.info guile.texi; \
            then \
              rc=0; \
              cd .; \
            else \
              rc=$?; \
              cd . && \
              $restore $backupdir/* `echo "./guile.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; \
            fi; \
            rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
    guile.texi:9: @include `version.texi': No such file or directory.
    guile.texi:27: warning: undefined flag: VERSION.
    guile.texi:164: warning: undefined flag: VERSION.
    /home/wingo/src/guile-1.8/doc/ref//preface.texi:15: warning: undefined 
flag: VERSION.
    /home/wingo/src/guile-1.8/doc/ref//intro.texi:72: warning: undefined flag: 
VERSION.
    /home/wingo/src/guile-1.8/doc/ref//intro.texi:75: warning: undefined flag: 
VERSION.
    /home/wingo/src/guile-1.8/doc/ref//intro.texi:80: warning: undefined flag: 
VERSION.
    /home/wingo/src/guile-1.8/doc/ref//intro.texi:83: warning: undefined flag: 
VERSION.
    /home/wingo/src/guile-1.8/doc/ref//intro.texi:89: warning: undefined flag: 
VERSION.
    makeinfo: Removing output file `guile.info' due to errors; use --force to 
preserve.
    make[3]: *** [guile.info] Error 1
    make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/wingo/src/guile-1.8/doc/ref'
    make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
    make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/wingo/src/guile-1.8/doc'
    make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
    make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/wingo/src/guile-1.8'
    make: *** [all] Error 2

If I pass --enable-maintainer-mode to configure this problem goes away,
and the build completes. Is this expected?

Regards,

Andy.
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